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We present a new method for building an abstract task representation from a single human-guided demonstration. We call it the Specification by Demonstration Approach and it is based on our Framework for Physical Interaction (FPI). Guided by a human instructor, a robot extracts a set of key task references and relates them to a visual model of the object. A physical interaction task representation...
We are witnessing an exciting trend towards vehicle automation. We extend the research on robotic vehicles of several international groups that employ expensive on-roof sensors by investigating whether close-to-market sensor configurations may be sufficient for this task. We show that cognitive and autonomous vehicles with a few close-to-market sensors are feasible. Vision plays the dominant role...
The research in off-road robotics is focusing on autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles able to navigate in rough terrain without a predefined trail. Typical examples are agriculture and forestry machines or planetary rovers. Detailed environmental perception and navigation strategies under various soil conditions have to be examined for developing an adequate control concept for such vehicles. Due...
It is commonly agreed that robots can play an extremely important role at all levels of education, from primary school up to university (Papert, 1993).
This book contains the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2014) which is sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and co-organized by Austrian Computer Society and Vienna University of Technology — TU Wien (TUW). ICINCO 2014 is held in cooperation with the ACM...
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